Friday, September 14, 2007

What is "manufacturing"?

Dear 5th Graders,


For your technology homework this week, many of you are busy researching how people take natural materials and "manufacture" them into human-made objects.

Remember, "manufacturing" means to make or produce anyting by hand or machinery.

What object have you chosen, and how is it manufactured? We are sure that you have done some exciting and wonderful research, and we want you to tell us about it! After all, sharing knowledge is what a blog is for!

So, at the bottom of this "blog" post, you will see a button that says "comment". If you click on that button, the computer will give you a box that you can type your "findings" into. After you have typed your research "findings", you will need to tell the computer who you are. Please select "other", and then type only your first name into the "name" line.

In your comment, be sure to include the following information:

1. The name (and a brief description) of the human-made object you researched

2. The natural materials that the human-made object was made from

3. The ways in which the natural materials had to be "processed" (or changed) in order to make the human-made object

4. How did you get your information (a website? which one? a book? which one? a family member? which one?)


If you are still trying to find out how some things are made, there are more moviesto watch. If you click the link below, it will take you to a page where you can choose one of five movies to watch how certain products are made (e.g. contact lenses, aluminum foil, snowboards, bread, and toothpicks --which you may have already watched). Click on the link, then click on the movie you want to watch.

http://science.discovery.com/fansites/howitsmade/videogallery/videogallery.html


And -- if you are interested in how Italian Gelato (YUMMY!!) is made, you can check it out at:

http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/realworld/ice_cream/swf/video.swf


Good luck -- and I can't wait to hear all about your discoveries!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sophia and I thought the toothpicks movie was very interesting. When we first saw the soon to be toothpicks they just looked like a bunch of clumpy logs, but by the end of the movie they looked like real toothpicks. The toothpicks were cut, polished, and cut a little more. By,
Sydney Concoff

Anonymous said...

What is Manufacturing?:
The Prosess of Change. By Turning 1 Object into Something Else. Like turning a STINKIN LOG into a Clean Perfect Toothpick